Tatiana Petrovna Nikolayeva (Russian: Татьяна Петровна Николаева, romanized: Tatyana Petrovna Nikolaeva; May 4, 1924 – November 22, 1993) was a pianist, composer, and teacher from the Soviet Union.
Life
editNikolayeva was born in Bezhitsa,[1] in the Bryansk district, on May 4, 1924.[2] Her mother was a professional pianist and studied at the Moscow Conservatory under the renowned pedagogue Alexander Goldenweiser, and her father was an amateur violinist and cellist.[2] Nikolayeva won first prize in the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig, which was founded to mark the bicentenary of Bach's death in 1750. Dmitri Shostakovich, who was a member of the jury, composed and dedicated the 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87, to her: it remained an important part of her piano repertoire.[2]
She sat as a jury member on international competitions such as the Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competition,[3] the International Tchaikovsky Competition and the Leeds Piano Competition.[2] She recorded her own transcription of Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf.[4] Nikolayeva was the teacher of Nikolai Lugansky.[5] Among her other students were András Schiff, whom she taught in summer courses at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar,[6] and Michael Korstick, whom she taught during her master classes at Musikhochschule Cologne, Germany.
She died on November 22, 1993, in San Francisco, nine days after succumbing to a brain haemorrhage during a performance of one of the Op. 87 fugues at the Herbst Theatre.[2][7]
As James Campbell-Methuen commented in her obituary, "Aside from the Shostakovich, though, Tatiana Nikolayeva will be remembered as a Bach player who flung stylistic considerations to the winds and played the music with an irrepressible musical intelligence and knowledge of the resources of her chosen instrument."[2]
Partial repertoire
editCompositions
edit- Violin Concerto (1972)[10]
- Symphony (1955; rev. 1958)[citation needed]
- 24 Concert Études, Op. 13, in all major and minor keys (1951–53)[11]
- Piano Quintet (1947)[citation needed]
References
edit- ^ "The Prokofiev Page – Recordings". Archived from the original on December 27, 2005.
- ^ a b c d e f "Obituary: Tatiana Nikolayeva". The Independent. November 27, 1993. Archived from the original on May 26, 2022.
- ^ Paloma O’Shea Santander International Piano Competition “Winners, members of the jury and artistic guests”
- ^ "scribd". Archived from the original on June 11, 2014.
- ^ "Nikolai Lugansky". www.kennedy-center.org. Retrieved October 17, 2020.
- ^ Schiff, András (April 2, 2020). Music Comes Out of Silence. Orion Publishing Group, Limited. ISBN 978-1-4746-1527-3.
- ^ "Tatiana Nikolayeva (Piano, Arranger) - Short Biography". www.bach-cantatas.com.
- ^ "Tatiana Nikolayeva (piano) on Hyperion Records". Hyperion Records.
- ^ "Preludes and Fugues (Shostakovich)".
- ^ "Russian Soviet and Post Soviet Concertos page 1- February 2011 MusicWeb-International". Archived from the original on January 17, 2013. Retrieved October 17, 2012.
- ^ "Pianist Tatiana Nikolayeva | website in memoriam of Tatiana Nikolayeva". www.tatiana-nikolayeva.info.
External links
edit- website in memoriam of Tatiana Nikolayeva
- Short biography and photograph from Hyperion Records
- Interview with Tatiana Nikolayeva by Bruce Duffie, October 16, 1992
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